Mon, Sep 21, 2015

Cooties

The Late Show: Area Premiere!

Friday, September 18 – Thursday, September 24

(2014) dir Jonathan Millott, Cary Murnion w/Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, Jack McBrayer, Leigh Whannell, Nasim Pedrad, Ian Brennn, Jorge Garcia [88 min; DCP]
When frustrated NYC writer Clint (Wood) returns to his smallhometown to try and finish (or maybe start) his novel, he takes a job as a substitute teacher at his old elementary school. His reunion with childhoodcrush Lucy (Pill) – also a teacher at the school – is interrupted by an outbreak of mutant bird flu that turns the school’s students into homicidal maniacs. With the safety of the town – and maybe the world – at stake, a brave band of misfit teachers, including Lucy’s erstwhile fiancé Wade (Wilson), must make a stand against the bloodthirsty tykes.

Gloriously over-the-top, COOTIES is a bloody and hilarious horror-comedy that finally allows both teachers and kids the opportunity to do what they’ve always wanted to: tear each other to shreds.